A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.Assisted by children at the home, sculptor Laith al-Amiri erected a brown replica of one of the shoes hurled at Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by journalist Muntadhir al-Zaidi during a press conference in Baghdad.
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The Great Shoe: The Newest Pilgrimage Site?
Posted on: January 31, 2009 10:37 AM, by Greg Laden
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So now the Tikrit region has a copper shoe instead of a statue of Saddam.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about that one. Must digest.
Posted by: Stacy | January 31, 2009 10:49 AM
Already banned. Someone should teach democracy and freedom of expression to Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_iraq_shoe_sculpture
Posted by: Lassi Hippeläinen | January 31, 2009 11:29 AM
"I did take the shoe down immediately and destroyed it, and I did not ask why," Shahah Daham told the German news agency DPA.
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | January 31, 2009 12:53 PM
If you can't protest through art, then the alternative is...
Posted by: Lilian Nattel | January 31, 2009 12:59 PM
if the Iraqis use their democracy similarly to Americans, then they will re-construct the shoe sculpture after U.S. forces leave and make it twice as big as the first one
Posted by: coffee | February 1, 2009 12:01 AM
Can we has one for our country?
Posted by: Rick Quarton | February 1, 2009 2:56 AM